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【activity】 Lantern Festival

- Mar 02, 2018 -

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoganyue, Yuanxu or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival and one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese. The lunar January is the first lunar month. The ancients called the night "night," so the first lunar January of the year, the fifteenth day, is called the Lantern Festival.

In ancient Chinese tradition, the Shangyuan Festival (the day of the festival, the Lantern Festival), the Zhongyuan Festival (the festival of the region, the Obon festival), the Xiayuan Festival (the festival of the water) are collectively referred to as the Sanyuan. The Lantern Festival began in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago. Chinese Emperor ordered the first lunar January 15 as the Lantern Festival. Han Emperor Wu, "too one God" sacrificial activities scheduled for January 15 (too one: dominate the universe of God). Sima Qian to create "too early" when the Lantern Festival has been identified as a major festival.